Romeo is a tragic hero because he fought and did everything he did to be with
Juliet but it still didnt work out and he ended up killing himself to be with
Juliet, then finding she wasnt dead just as he had drunken the poison. Then
Juliet saw her dead Romeo and killed herself with a dagger.
The movie End of
Days has something like this. The main character fights Satan because he came
to earth to take it over. At the end of the movie the demon possesses him and he
must throw himself onto a statue holding a sword killing himself but saving the
world, This is another example of a Tragic Hero. The movie Gladiators main
hero, Maximus Aries is also a tragic hero. Its about a Roman army general
whos empire turned on him and imprisoned him after Caesar made him the heir
to Rome.
Caesar didnt choose his own son because he was corrupt, when he told
his son this his son suffocated Caesar before he annoced to Rome who the heir of
Caesars empire was, and of course everyone would think it was his son, but it
was actually Maximus. Caesars son told some troops to take Maximus and kill
him in the forest but he escaped. They then had his wife and child crucified. He
then gets sold as a slave, to an entertainer who makes Gladiators. Maximus then
rises up and becomes undefeated and in the end and takes on Caesars son in a
gladiator match. Caesars son wounded Maximus before the match but Maximus
still managed to come through and kill him.
He told everyone Caesars last dying
wishes and his own to take Rome and make it republic once again then Maximus
fell to the ground and died. These 2 examples are like Romeo because they died
or did something heroic and the outcome for them was bad and tragic. Tragic
heroes usually die or have something bad happen to them at the end of the story,
but they die for a good cause making it tragic that they died but they may have
saved the world, or be reunited with there loved ones.
Shakespeare
